Posted on 04/23/2019 11:01:03 AM PDT by simpson96
The Lady Eve is a 1941 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges which stars Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a mismatched couple who meet on board an ocean liner.
Jean Harrington is a beautiful con artist. Along with her equally larcenous father, "Colonel" Harrington, and his partner Gerald, she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike, the heir to the Pike Ale fortune, "The Ale That Won for Yale". Charles is a woman-shy snake expert Ophidiologist, just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon. Though surrounded by ladies desperate for his attention, Charles is putty in Jean's hands. But even the best laid plans can go astray.
The Lady Eve (1941) - Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda
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Christmas in Connecticut is one of our family’s annual, must watch Christmastime movies!
Stanwyck is perfect, in her role.
For some reason, Fred McMurray always bothered me.
Hi Jane, she sure is great in that. Can’t have Christmas unless we watch it.
One of my very favorites of the Golden Age
AND
the world is better place because Edith Head dressed her.
Hotsy Totsy indeed!
I LOVE that movie——the chemistry between career girl Stanwyck and homebody Dennis O’Keefe was wonderful.
The plot took some unexpected turns and was marked by Sidney Greenstreet’s snffish portrayal of B/S’s boss who forced himself on her as a Christmas guest.
Stanwyck was superb as the double-crossing wife in Double Indemnity.
Fred McMurray fell right into her seductive trap.....as did the husband they killed.
Now there was a movie with a moral.
Today’s Hollywood could never make such a movie about the wages of sin.
That scene is priceless....truly memorable celluloid.
It was said of Clark Gable that he could play any part Hollywood could come up with......
yet in every part he played he was still the great Gable.
The same could be said for Stanwyck......she played many different parts even the woebegone “Stella Dallas”.....
yet no character could subdue the compelling Stanwyck personna.
He was pretty much a rat(or a version of todays liberals) in ‘The Caine Mutiny’ and I ‘always’ pictured him in that role.
Even when he played a cop I kept thinking of Caine and then he was also a ‘dirty cop’ in Double Indemnity so he remained forever on my ‘S’ List...<: <: <:
I think Caine was the first I had seen him so it ‘stuck’ even going back to older movies he had done...
I agree with your choice, and I love Barbara Stanwyck!
A close second is “Meet John Doe”.
Typecast as a “nice guy”, MacMurray was cast against type, as “bad guy” Walter Neff, an insurance salesman
who plots murder with greedy wife Barbara Stanwyck in the film noir classic Double Indemnity (1944).
“Not so nice” MacMurray played the cynical, duplicitous Lieutenant Thomas Keefer in Dmytryk’s 1954 film The Caine Mutiny.
MacMurray also played Jeff Sheldrake, a two-timing corporate executive in Wilder’s Oscar-winning The Apartment, (1960) with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon.
MacMurray was quite conservative.....he was a staunch Republican and campaigned for Ronald Reagan alogside singer Dean Martin and Charlton Heston.
His marriage to June Haver lasted 37 years.
Thanks for ‘update/correction’ for ‘Double Indemnity’, I was thinking of the one where he was on stakeout and fell for ‘Kim Novak’??...’Pushover’ 1954....
But my first remembrance of him was as Keefer and it ‘stuck’ with me because he was a ‘rat’....<: <:
I ‘never’ allowed him to vindicate himself - in my mind...HA
I have always been a big fan of her work, at least until around 1950. I was not much into her “mature” years, but loved her in her prime. My favorite would have to be Double Indemnity (quite possibly the definitive film noir).
Can’t be having none of that American Way in hollyweird anymore. (sigh)
Course in those days, Hollywood was still a two-party town
"Pushover" was Kim's first starring role, I believe. She was never more beautiful than in that role.
Having plastic surgery ruined that gorgeous face of hers.
yeah i can’t really put my finger on why i didn’t care for her acting- it was just something- maybe coupled with the fact i don’t care for how hollywood would hype certain actors or actresses, making them huge mega stars wen they weren’t all that great- not bad, but just not having the big ‘it’ factor- joan crawford was another actress i never cared for but she was huge in hollywood-
Fantastic movie.....the ending with her bridal veil blowing in the wind was memorable.
I/H/O/N was never supposed to be a hit.
Gable was forced into the part b/c he was being punished by the studio....so goes the legend.....but he was so talented he could make a bomb a hit.
The chemistry between Colbert and Gable was amazing.
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